Tuesday, May 24, 2005

What does it mean? Who knows?

It would appear that John McCain and McCain wannbes Lindsey Graham, and Mike DeWine have throw at least two of the president’s judicial nominees overboard. While it is impossible to tell what this agreement really means because your “extraordinary circumstances” may turn out to be my business-as-usual circumstances, it’s clear that McCain et al were interested in torpedoing the Republican majority in favor of a deal that would make Harry Reid, Teddy Kennedy and Chucky Schumer happy.

Republican leader Frist should quickly bring to the floor for a vote the two judges named in Part I B of the agreement, William Myers (9th Circuit) and Henry Saad (6th Circuit). This will give the public and Republican primary voters some sense of what this deal was all about. If the nominations proceed to floor for a vote, that’ll be a good a good thing. If some how McCain and all six of his wannbes vote against these nominees while Democrats continue to behave like Star Wars clones marching in lock-step, it’ll be clear that the fix was in from the start.

Until this thing blows up in McCain’s face, which I believe it will, the adoring MSM will continue to paint McCain as a maverick, a thorn in the president’s side. McCain, as he always does, will make the rounds to the talk shows appearing almost nightly with Chris Mathews who treats McCain like one of the sycophants in waiting who surround Jabba-the-hut. But when the deal goes south McCain, like Jabba, will sink into a sand pit of angry – conservative – Republican – presidential – primary - voters. One thing is certain, Mathews and all of his MSM buds will not be able to cast a single vote for McCain in that forum.

The president, as always, will be gracious. While consolidating the gains allowed under McCain’s agreement, President Bush will continue to nominate constructionist judges and dare scary Harry to find some “extraordinary circumstance” to bring us back to this point. When that happens, after he cleans the egg from his face, not even McCain will be able to save the Democrats from themselves.

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